Merchants urge keeping U S troops in Lagency
In Lagoney Luzon Lagency South Camarines merchants cable General Chaffee asking not to withdraw American troops. They warn withdrawal would abandon protection from a lawless element threaten lives property and food supply and hinder rescue. they cite police weakness and recent troop withdrawals from Goa Nuitiagon and Sangay amid assaults robberies assassinations and forced contributions.
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Manila
Lagoney
Camarines Province
Luzon
Chaffee
Lagency
Goa
Nuitiagon
Sangay
Detroit Professor Confesses in Jennett Murder Case
A Detroit special reports Prof. Joseph M. Miller confessed to killing Currie MM. Jennett after an hour and twenty minutes in the sweatbox. Assistant prosecutor Merriam, three officers, and the police stenographer were present. Miller said he had illicit relations with the victim and claimed responsibility for her condition. He said he offered to send Miss Jennett to a lying-in hospital, but she refused.
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Detroit
Mich
Joseph M. Miller
Currie MM. Jennett
Miller
Merriam
Police Department
Miss Jennett
Train collision injures several in Memphis yard derailment
The northbound New Orleans limited No. 2 of the Illinois Central struck a switch engine in IC yards Memphis Tenn. The passenger engine two baggage cars mail and second class coach derailed. Fireman William Goodloe was killed. Engineer Charles J Garnett badly injured. Express Messenger William E Pink of Cairo fractured skull and severely bruised. An unknown man presumed tramp lost a hand and an eye.
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New Orleans
Illinois Central
Memphis
Tenn
William Goodloe
Charles J. Garnett
William E. Pink
Cairo
Niavana Grants Partial Pardons for Life or Lesser Sentences
An order grants partial pardons to inmates serving life or shorter terms, reducing penalties by one quarter to one half. Anyone awaiting Court of Appeals decisions must withdraw appeals to qualify. The order clarifies pardons for offenses connected with war.
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Court of Appeals
Harris Denies Telegram Rumor on Boer Terms
Frederic Rutherford Harris former secretary of the Chartered South Africa company was questioned at Llangibly Castle Usk Monmouthshire about a telegram announcing Boer leaders had accepted British terms. He said the rumor was entirely without foundation.
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Frederic Rutherford Harris
South Africa Company
Llangibly Castle
Usk
Monmouthshire
Harris
Burglars Rob Post Office and Store in Wamlet Indiana
Burglars entered the Wamlet post office and stole stamps valued at 500 dollars. The adjacent general store owned by I N Compton was also broken into and jewelry worth a large amount was taken. Bloodhounds are deployed to track the thieves.
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Wamlet
Ind
I. N. Compton
Mob executes suspect after deputy’s fatal shooting near Victoria
An unidentified Black man who fatally injured Deputy Sheriff J. B. Thomas near Victoria Louisiana during an attempted arrest was captured by about fifty men and beaten to death. The deputy had previously wounded the suspect who had struck another Black person.
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J. B. Thomas
Victoria
Thomas
United States Agencies Move to Protect Ameri can Interests
The consul at Colon warns Boca Del Toro faces imminent insurgent attack and a warship is required. The Navy Department will dispatch the Machins to the threatened point. Eugene F. Ware of Kansas is named new Commissioner of Pensions to succeed H. Clay Evans. he hails from Topeka and is part of Gleed, Ware & Gleed.
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United States
Colon
Boca del Toro
Navy Department
Eugene F. Ware
Kansas
H. Clay Evans
Mr. Ware
Topeka, Kan
Gleed
Evan
Tragedy at Labette Iron Works Claims Three Foreign Workers
A sewer collapse at Labette Iron Works in Steubenville Ohio kills three men and injures two others, all identified as foreigners. Emergency crews reported the incident as a fatal accident with multiple injuries.
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Labette Iron Works
Steubenville
Ohio
Goa revolt erupts as Mahratta land owners clash with Portuguese
A fresh uprising in Goa, Portugal’s western Indian colony, sees Mahratta landowners leading about 5,000 followers in violence at Valpoy. They burn military barracks and reports indicate soldiers killed.
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Bombay
Goa
Portugal
India
Valpoy
Maryland Paper Mill Fire Destroys Cumberland Sulphite Mill
The sulphite mill of Cumberland Virginia was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars with partial insurance coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Cumberland, Vd
Stoss
Settlers in the Northwest Move Through Minneapolis in Spring
About 2,000 prospective settlers passed through Minneapolis on a Great Northern train bound for Dakota, Montana, and Washington claims. The day marked the largest flow to the Northwest with families living in tents until homes are built. A woman with nine children headed for a site north of Minot, North Dakota, to help break ground. Freight office records show 1,146 carloads of household goods and 204 carloads of livestock moved since spring began.
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Minneapolis
Atlantic
Union Depot
Dakotas
Montana
Washington
St. Paul
Northwest
Great Northern
Northern Pacific Coast
Twin Cities
Minot
N. D
Great Northern Railway
Death by Morphine Ends Night of Fear in Clinton Kansas
Mrs Ida Moore 19 years old died after taking morphine in Clinton. A 10 year old daughter of Mrs J K Horney, who employed Moore, kept watch all night fearing a revolver threat. The family found Moore dead as they entered the room. Moore had recently filed for divorce.
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Ida Moore
Clinton
Jod
J. K. Horney
Moore
Death on the graveside as wife shoots herself
Annie Schlosa died after firing a bullet into her head at St Anthony cemetery in Minneapolis. She had summoned her husband by telephone to the graves, where he arrived too late to prevent her suicide amid a family quarrel and a search for her whereabouts.
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Annie Schlosa
St. Anthony Cemetery
Minneapolis
City
Blanche Walsh Injured Falls From Seattle Theater
Blanche Walsh presenting Janice Meredith at a Seattle opera house fell from a rickety rear entrance into Puget Sound. The icy bath left her crippled and shocked, incapacitating her for several days.
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Blanche Walsh
Janice Meredith
Opera House
Seattle
Wash
Puget Sound
Wife of Indianola farmer on life term for ax murder
Margaret Hossack is serving a life sentence for killing her husband, a wealthy Indianola-area farmer. The victim was killed with an ax as he slept. his wife claimed burglars committed the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fendant
Margaret Hossack
Indianola
Child actor spurns mother in habeas corpus case
Grace Clayton aged eleven of Dayton Ohio has played Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin with the Washburn company for six years. Her mother filed habeas corpus against Ida Washburn of Buffalo New York to recover custody. Grace testified she preferred her guardianship and Judge McCann ordered her returned to Mrs Washburn, who will take her to Buffalo for future stage roles.
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Little Grace Clayton
Dayton
Ohio
Eva
Prince Honors Little Negro for Cabin Decoration
The boy Herbert Cummings, a mulatto from New York, decorated Prince Henry’s cabin aboard the Deutschland. Impressed by the floral work on the Hohenzollern in port, the prince sent him to Bremen and presented a gold watch and chain plus a recommendation letter on return voyage.
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Henry
New York
Herbert Cummings
Prince Henry
Emperor William
Hohenzollern
Bremen
Deutschland
Paralyzed Widow Dies After Civil War Shock
One of the most peculiar death certificates filed with the New York Board of Health cites Mrs Bridget O Connell a 82 year old as dying from apoplexy caused by her husband’s death in the Civil War thirty eight years earlier She was paralyzed on hearing of her husband’s death and suffered a second stroke that led to her demise.
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New York Board of Plealth
Bridget O'Connell
Nail Driven Through Head Ends Husband in Grant County
In Grant County Oklahoma Territory Mrs Peoples a Bohemian killed her husband by driving a nail through his head after he returned home drunk. He beat her earlier then slept with his head against a pine partition when she drove the nail from the opposite side.
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Prives
Grant County
O. T
Peoples
Fire sweeps Southern Plow Works and Columbus Iron Works
A blaze at the Southern Plow Works in Columbus Ohio destroyed the plow shop and at Columbus Iron Works burned two blocks and a warehouse. The total loss reached about 300000 dollars. The fire’s origin remains unknown.
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Big
Southern Plow Works
Colmbus
Ohio
Columbus
Two Killed in Powder Plant Explosion at Glen Willow
Two men died when nearly 3000 pounds of powder exploded at the Austin Powder Company plant near Glen Willow southeast of Cleveland. The plant was wrecked and the cause remained unknown.
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Austin Powder Company
Glen Willow
Cleveland
Lowther Plans Appeal After Church Verdict
Rev. Granville Lowther of McPherson Kansas says he will appeal the Methodist committee verdict finding him guilty of heretical teachings.
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Lowther
Granville Lowther
McPherson
Kan
Methodist Committee
King Leopold mobbed by socialists in Brussels arrival
King Leopold was surrounded by shouting socialists waving red flags as he arrived in Brussels from Biarritz. The crowd protested the presence of a Spanish republican delegation, while police moved the Spaniards to depart as the King’s car struggled to break through.
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Leopold
Brussels
Biarritz
Million Dollar Lease Tie to Negaunee Iron Mine
Mrs J P Maas of Negaunee Michigan and her nephew George Lonstorf of Milwaukee reap wealth from a 224 acre tract housing the Negaunee iron mine. A Chicago mining concern agreed to a fifty year lease for 1 500 000 dollars, the largest bonus in the Lake Superior district. Royalty is 30 cents per ton with a guaranteed minimum of 300000 tons yearly.
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J. P. Maas
Negaunee
Mich
George Lonstorf
Milwaukee
Maas
Lonstort
Chicago
Lake Superior District
Soldier seeks blind love in Council Bluffs reunion tale
Lieut Charles A Barron of Cleveland Ohio fell in love with a Council Bluffs girl he never met after seeing her once on a depot platform four years ago while en route to the Philippines. He left Wittsburg Pennsylvania to take a motor conductor job in hopes of finding her again. Barron served as a private in Battery C Third Ohio artillery during the voyage.
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Charles A. Barron
Cleveland
Ohio
Council Bluffs
Wittsburg
Barron
Third Ohio Artillery
Philippines
May Postpone St Louis Fair If Buildings Not Ready
Chairman Thomas A. Carter of the National Louisiana Purchase Commission said the St Louis exposition may open as planned if construction is completed. otherwise directors will push the date back a year. In Chicago, two brothers saved Lewis J Thombs from conviction in a murder case on the steamer Teerless after a prolonged jury deadlock.
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Thomas A. Carter
Montana
National Louisiana Purchase Commission
St. Louis
Lewis J.thombs
Carrie Larson
Teerless
Dee
Train Jumps Track Kills Engineer and Brakeman at Wayland
In Wayland Massachusetts a freight train on the Boston and Maine Railroad derailed after hitting an open switch. The engineer Pred Judkins and brakeman William Southerland were killed when the train struck the freight house. Prof Joseph M Miller in Detroit confessed to murdering Carrie M Jennett a music pupil killed while returning from a lodge meeting.
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Boston and Maine Railroad
Wayland
Mass
Pred Judkins
William Southerland
Crashes a Magnate's Home at New Astor Hotel
A half ton stone fell from the sixteenth floor of New York's Astor Hotel and crashed through the roof of James Everard's residence. No injuries, but fifteen near escapes were reported in this dramatic incident.
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New Astor Hotel
New York
James Everard
Congress Debates War Revenue Tax Bill and Chinese Exclusion
Senate discussion occupied most of Monday with the conference report on the war revenue tax reduction bill and action on the Chinese exclusion measure. The House passed the Chinese exclusion bill, approved the tax bill conference report, and extended national bank charters.
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Senate
Sterling
Simmons
South
China
Orient
Pacific Coast
House
Conference
Simon
Hoar
Alaska
Gallinger
Dillingham
Turner
Srabbanka
Committee of Immigration
Patterson
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry
Conn
Richardson
Tenn
Committee On Agriculture
Griggs Named DCC Chairman in Democratic Notes
Congressman Griggs of Georgia selected as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee. An appropriation bill passed the House authorizes re examining retired officers for fitness. Countess Cassini hosted a styling party with guests dressing hair as historical figures. Twenty thousand people attended the White House egg rolling event. The Roosevelt boys participated actively in the sports event.
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Washington
Congressman Griggs
Georgia
Democratic Congressional Committee
Arpuy
House
Cassini
White House
Roosevelt Boys
Trade and crop outlook from R G Dun report
R G Dun & Co Weekly Review notes mixed labor disruption risks and uncertain iron steel supplies while retail apparel holds, shoes steady, and leather sells. Wheat corn and cotton markets show varied shifts. Bradstreet reports solid early year profits with good crop prospects for summer and fall.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Cov
Pittsburg
Bessemer
New England
United States
Atlantic
R. G. Dun & Co
Bradstreet
Chicago
Cair
Commodity Prices Across Cities and Reynolds Death Notices
Market listings show cattle hogs and sheep prices across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with wheat corn oats rye and dairy values. Gen D R Reynolds former Confederate brigadier general dies at Lake Village Arkansas.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
D. R. Reynolds
Lake Village
Ark
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Charles Burns
el Taso
Texas
George Cole
Mcskinley
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Muncie
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Supreme Court of Town
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Racine
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Committee On
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John W. Starke
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ST. Louis Fair
Carrie M. Jennett
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Columbia
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Killa
James Whitfield
Western Baseball League
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Secretary of State
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Arlington Cemetery
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Cal
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Cummings
N. Y
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Swansen
Dun
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